From Beginner to Level 6 in nine months! One common question that I get from teachers about the Piano Program Music Theory Courses is ‘what level do I place my students into?’ This can be especially difficult to determine if you are working with a transfer student, or an older beginner. As a general rule, […]
Piano Program Box, February Looking for some fun online resources to use with your teaching this month (and many months to come)? Here we are, February 2021 – which means most of us have been teaching online for 11 months now. It can be challenging. But I’ve been focusing on the amazing progress my students […]
Starting any new program in your music studio can be tricky! Often it takes time and a little effort to get our students to use a new program, such as Piano Program Music Theory courses. Here’s a sample email that you can use to communicate with your students. Just copy and paste (changing the items in orange to your personal information) and send! And feel free to use the graphic as a visual aid for your students as well!
Online interview with Dr. Gene Willet I’m excited to share this interview with you! A little bit of a background – Gene and I went to graduate school together at UT-Austin (he was doing a PhD in Music Theory and I was doing a DMA in piano pedagogy), and then we both ended up teaching […]
New resource page for teachers Some big changes are happening to the Piano Program website very soon! I love that many teachers are using the music theory courses, and of course I’m enjoying using it in my teaching as well. So after taking a step back and looking at all of the work I’ve done […]
It was such a pleasure to speak at the MTNA National Conference in Orlando today! I loved seeing old friends and making new ones. I hope that I was able to inspire you to start thinking about how YOU can use the flipped classroom approach in your studios. I hope everyone grabbed a printed handout […]
If you are a piano teacher like I am, perhaps you have all of your lessons planned out as carefully as possible. Repertoire is selected, technique is planned out, and theory courses assigned. But sometimes lessons don’t always go as planned. So it’s nice to have a few resources to use as additional material for […]
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Improvising using a chord chart – did you know that classical musicians, jazz musicians, church musicians, and music educators all use the skills of reading from a chord chart? We can trace chord chart reading all the way back to the baroque period of music (1600-1750), when composers such as J.S. Bach and Henry Purcell […]